Happy Hares Nursery Blog
October 2025
October has been a busy month at Happy Hares, with our activities centred around 'Diwali', 'Road Safety', and 'The Zoo'. To celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, we created our own diya lamps, designed vibrant rangoli patterns, and made Barfi, a traditional...
September 2025
Autumn has arrived! This month, the children have had a wonderful time exploring both Pilton and Rock park, collecting treasures such as conkers, acorns, pine cones and colourful leaves. They really enjoyed activities inspired by their finds; honing their maths skills...
August 2025
During August at Happy Hares, we’ve celebrated some VERY important skills. These are not your everyday skills – these are the ones that make childhood magical and fun. These skills included shark dodging, tree climbing, castle building, sheet painting, woodworking,...
July 2024
Welcome to our latest blog post for July! This month, we've been exploring the exciting themes of 'Superheroes' and 'TraditionalTales'. We connected the Superheroes theme with discussions about emotions and Phase 1phonics and we've discovered that heroes come in all...
June 2024
June has been super busy for us at Happy Hares! Our highlight was our 'Transport' theme - we had a blast learning about all the cool ways to get around and checked out transport from around the globe. We visited the library and held a fantastic summer garden party....
September 2023
Doctors & Nurses Week This week we have been learning all about our health care professionals and how they look after us! We have been dressing up as doctors, nurses and paramedics and using our imaginations to create our own role play scenarios! We have been...
June
We have loved spending time in our garden in the sunshine recently! We have enjoyed planting lots of vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, sweetcorn, tomatoes and strawberries. We watch them grow closely and have learnt all about the process of growing our own fruit...
May
We all had a great time joining in with our Hartbeeps session this week! We were lucky enough to spend our time with Neralie outside in the beautiful sunshine, learning all about the Kings Coronation! We loved dressing up as kings and queens, wearing crowns, capes and...
Red Nose Day 2023
We have had a brilliant day dressed in our red and funny outfits! Thank you all for dressing up and for kindly donating, everyone looked amazing!
Chinese New Year
We have had a fabulous time this week learning about Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed making dragon masks by collage and painting and we also made a huge dragon altogether! Our favourite part was tasting different foods - the noodles and crackers were a real hit!
Magical month of December!
We have had a magical month for December! Leading up to Christmas we have been taking part in lots of Christmas activities and crafts. We have been creating our own crafts to take home to our families whilst decorating the nursery with our handmade decorations. We...
Hartbeeps Musical Class
This week we were super lucky to be able to have a Hartbeeps musical class in nursery! Neralie came to see us and showed us all of her magical resources! We sang lots of songs, learnt new actions and dressed up all whilst developing our communication and language...
Our talented two’s have had an exciting month in June!
We have been focusing on 'Under The Sea' and 'At The Beach'. We have been getting our hands messy in arts and crafts, under the sea sensory trays, sea animal playdough and painting our own sea creatures. We have also been practicing our fine and gross motor skills,...